Bloomer Girls

Author : Debra A Shattuck
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-01-18
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780252098796

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Bloomer Girls by Debra A Shattuck Pdf

Disapproving scolds. Sexist condescension. Odd theories about the effect of exercise on reproductive organs. Though baseball began as a gender-neutral sport, girls and women of the nineteenth century faced many obstacles on their way to the diamond. Yet all-female nines took the field everywhere. Debra A. Shattuck pulls from newspaper accounts and hard-to-find club archives to reconstruct a forgotten era in baseball history. Her fascinating social history tracks women players who organized baseball clubs for their own enjoyment and found roster spots on men's teams. Entrepreneurs, meanwhile, packaged women's teams as entertainment, organizing leagues and barnstorming tours. If the women faced financial exploitation and indignities like playing against men in women's clothing, they and countless ballplayers like them nonetheless staked a claim to the nascent national pastime. Shattuck explores how the determination to take their turn at bat thrust female players into narratives of the women's rights movement and transformed perceptions of women's physical and mental capacity.

Author : Leslie A. Heaphy,Mel Anthony May
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781476665948

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Encyclopedia of Women and Baseball by Leslie A. Heaphy,Mel Anthony May Pdf

Women have been involved in baseball from the game's early days, in a wide range of capacities. This ambitious encyclopedia provides information on women players, managers, teams, leagues, and issues since the mid-19th century. Players are listed by maiden name with married name, when known, in parentheses. Information provided includes birth date, death date, team, dates of play, career statistics and brief biographical notes when available. Related entries are noted for easy cross-reference. Appendices include the rosters of the World War II era All American Girls Professional Baseball League teams; the standings and championships from the AAGPBL; and all women's baseball teams and players identified to date.

Author : John M. Kovach
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 0738533807

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Women's Baseball by John M. Kovach Pdf

In 1866, just one year after the end of the Civil War, the first documented female baseball players took to the field at Vassar College. Those early pioneers paved the way for women who would play baseball as both amateurs and professionals up to the present day. Some were headlining stars on barnstorming teams, while others organized and operated their own teams, and from the 1890s through the 1930s they were known as Bloomer Girls, due to the baggy pants created by Amelia Bloomer. In 1988, the American Womenas Baseball Association began play in the Chicago area. With play starting in 1990, the Washington (DC) Metropolitan Womenas Baseball League is now the oldest operating womenas amateur baseball league in the country. In 2001, a true baseball World Series was held in Toronto, Canada, with womenas baseball teams from the United States, Canada, Japan, and Australia. That event will celebrate its fifth season in 2005.

Author : Marilyn Cohen
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2009-04-22
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780786452972

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No Girls in the Clubhouse by Marilyn Cohen Pdf

Even though teenaged girl Jackie Mitchell once struck out Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig, women are still striking out on the hardball diamond. This book builds on recently published histories of women as amateur and professional players, umpires, sports commentators and fans to analyze the cultural and historical contexts for excluding females from America’s pastime. Drawing on anthropological and feminist perspectives, the book examines the ways that constructions of women’s bodies and normative social roles have pushed them toward softball instead of baseball. Sportswriter accounts, Title IX sex-discrimination suits, and interviews with players explore the obstacles and the social isolation of females who join all-male baseball teams, while also discussing policies that inhibit the practice.

Author : Paula Edelson
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Sports for women
ISBN : 9781438107899

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A to Z of American Women in Sports by Paula Edelson Pdf

Presents biographical profiles of important women in sports history, including birth and death dates, major accomplishments, and historical influence.

Author : Scott Simkus
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781613748169

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Outsider Baseball by Scott Simkus Pdf

Outsider Baseball is the story of a forgotten world, where independent professional ball clubs zig-zagged across America, plying their trade in big cities and small villages alike. Included among the former and future major leaguers were mercenaries, scalawags, and outcasts. This is where Babe Ruth, Rube Waddell, and John McGraw crossed bats with the Cuban Stars, Tokyo Giants, Brooklyn Bushwicks, dozens of famous Negro league teams, and novelty acts such as the House of David and Bloomer Girls. Legends emerged in this alternate baseball universe and author Scott Simkus sets out to share their stories and use a critical lens to separate fact from fiction. Written in a gritty prose style, Outsider Baseball combines meticulous research with modern analytics, opening the door to an unforgettable funhouse of baseball history. Scott Simkus is the founder and editor of the Outsider Baseball Bulletin. He is the winner of a research award from the Society of American Baseball Research for his work on the Negro League Database.

Author : Peter M. Rutkoff,Alvin L. Hall
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2000-06-02
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0786408324

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The Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture, 1999 by Peter M. Rutkoff,Alvin L. Hall Pdf

This is an anthology of 23 papers that were presented at the Eleventh Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture, held June 9-11, 1999, and co-sponsored by the State University of New York at Oneonta and the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. The papers focus on the antecedents of baseball and the early history of America's national pastime and are divided into five parts: "Baseball and the American Imagination," "Baseball and American Culture," "Baseball and American Society," "Baseball and American Business" and "Baseball and the Fan." The preface is by series editor Alvin L. Hall, and an introduction is provided by the editor of the volume, Peter M. Rutkoff.

Author : Johnny D. Boggs
Publisher : Blackstone Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781982595128

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Buckskin, Bloomers, and Me by Johnny D. Boggs Pdf

What’s a sixteen-year-old boy to do when he learns that his stepmother and a local judge have murdered his father and now plan to kill him, too? Well, when it’s 1906, and you can play pretty good second base, you join a barnstorming baseball team making its way across Kansas. It also helps that the team is the Kansas City National Bloomer Girls. After all, who’d look for a runaway boy disguised as a girl on a women’s team that competes against town-ball teams of male players? Of course, it’ll take more than long hair, a Spalding glove, and a quick bat to stay alive. Luckily, another Bloomer Girl, Buckskin Compton, alias Dolly Madison, is on the dodge after some shootings and beatings in Wyoming—and he takes the kid under his tutelage. Staying alive won’t prove easy for either of the reluctant female impersonators as they deal with a budding romance, hitting slumps, a crooked manager, bean balls, drunken teammates, bank robbers, lousy umpires, a revolution for women’s rights, and a rapidly changing Western frontier. Baseball isn’t always fun and games—especially when one bad play might leave the both of you cut from the Bloomer Girls ... or just plain dead. In a novel very loosely based on fact (Bloomer Girls teams of mostly women players did barnstorm across the country in the early 1900s), eight-time Spur Award winner Johnny D. Boggs blends America’s pastime with the American frontier. This episodic, tongue-in-cheek adventure showcases what made, and still makes, America and the Wild, Wild West great: Strong heroes. Stronger women. And a good, clean game.

Author : Nancy Plain,Rocky Gibbons
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781493051069

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Why Cows Need Cowboys by Nancy Plain,Rocky Gibbons Pdf

**2022 Will Rogers Medallion Award Gold Winner for Western Non-Fiction - Young Readers** Welcome to Western Writers of America’s first anthology for young readers. In this collection of true tales of the West, we leave textbook history in the rearview mirror and take you on a tour of twenty seldom-told dramas, the kind you might stumble across only if you leave the main road to wander the detours and byways of the American story. Here you’ll meet extraordinary characters, from a young buffalo hunter of prehistoric times to riders for the Pony Express, the first African American female stagecoach driver, and the Navajo code talkers of World War II. Did you know that in 1821, a Plains Indian girl trekked 1,400 miles to visit Washington, DC? Or that two brave children, eight and ten years old, took part in the Texas Revolution? Tales in this anthology range wide in time, topic, and mood, yet all celebrate a spirit that is uniquely Western. Founded in 1953, Western Writers of America is the nation’s oldest and most distinguished organization of professionals writing about the early frontier and the American West, its past and present. Now in our sixty-eighth year, our more than seven hundred members write fiction and nonfiction, songs, poetry, short stories, plays for stage and screen, and more. The contributors to this anthology, WWA members all, include bestselling authors and winners of numerous prestigious literary awards. With Why Cows Need Cowboys, we invite you to journey westward with us, and we hope you enjoy the ride.

Author : John Arthur Fraser
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UIUC:30112045825814

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Bloomer Girls; Or, Courtship in the Twentieth Century by John Arthur Fraser Pdf

Author : Gerald C. Wood
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 487 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781496211422

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Smoky Joe Wood by Gerald C. Wood Pdf

WINNER OF THE 2014 SEYMOUR MEDAL sponsored by the Society for American Baseball Research and finalist for 2014 SABR Larry Ritter Award Though his pitching career lasted only a few seasons, Howard Ellsworth "Smoky Joe" Wood was one of the most dominating figures in baseball history--a man many consider the best baseball player who is not in the Hall of Fame. About his fastball, Hall of Fame pitcher Walter Johnson once said: "Listen, mister, no man alive can throw harder than Smoky Joe Wood." Smoky Joe Wood chronicles the singular life befitting such a baseball legend. Wood got his start impersonating a female on the National Bloomer Girls team. A natural athlete, he pitched for the Boston Red Sox at eighteen, won twenty-one games and threw a no-hitter at twenty-one, and had a 34-5 record plus three wins in the 1912 World Series, for a 1.91 ERA, when he was just twenty-two. Then in 1913 Wood suffered devastating injuries to his right hand and shoulder that forced him to pitch in pain for two more years. After sitting out the 1916 season, he came back as a converted outfielder and played another five years for the Cleveland Indians before retiring to coach the Yale University baseball team. With details culled from interviews and family archives, this biography, the first of this rugged player of the Deadball Era, brings to life one of the genuine characters of baseball history.

Author : Stephanie Stidham Rogers
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : Suffragists
ISBN : 9781666950137

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Suffragist Migration West After Seneca Falls 1848-1871 by Stephanie Stidham Rogers Pdf

"This book explores the link between Elizabeth Cady Stanton, the Seneca Falls Women's Rights Conference of 1848, and the Women's Suffrage Bill, unveiling Catherine Paine Blaine's journey within the Suffragist movement, highlighting her advocacy within the Suffragist history in Washington State and the Western US"--

Author : Jean Hastings Ardell
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2005-03-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0809326272

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Breaking Into Baseball by Jean Hastings Ardell Pdf

While baseball is traditionally perceived as a game to be played, enjoyed, and reported from a masculine perspective, it has long been beloved among women—more so than any other spectator sport. Breaking into Baseball: Women and the National Pastime upends baseball’s accepted history to at last reveal just how involved women are, and have always been, in the American game. Through provocative interviews and deft research, Jean Hastings Ardell devotes a detailed chapter to each of the seven ways women participate in the game—from the stands as fans, on the field as professionals or as amateur players, behind the plate as umpires, in the front office as executives, in the press box as sportswriters and reporters, or in the shadows as Baseball Annies. From these revelatory vantage points, Ardell invites overdue appreciation for the affinity and talent women bring to baseball at all levels and shows us our national game anew. From its ancient origins in spring fertility rituals through contemporary marketing efforts geared toward an ever-increasing female fan base, baseball has always had a feminine side, and generations of women have sought—and been sought after—to participate in the sport, even when doing so meant challenging the cultural mores of their era. In that regard, women have been breaking into baseball from the very beginning. But recent decades have witnessed great strides in legitimizing women’s roles on the diamond as players and umpires as well as in vital management and media roles. In her thoughtfully organized and engagingly written survey, Ardell offers a chance for sports enthusiasts and historians of both genders to better appreciate the storied and complex relationship women have so long shared with the game and to glimpse the future of women in baseball. Breaking into Baseball is augmented by twenty-four illustrations and a foreword from Ila Borders, the first woman to play more than three seasons of men’s professional baseball.

Author : United States. Work Projects Administration (Ohio)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1054 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1940
Category : American newspapers
ISBN : OSU:32435030230494

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Cleveland Plain Dealer Index by United States. Work Projects Administration (Ohio) Pdf

Author : Robert Elias
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317325185

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Baseball and the American Dream by Robert Elias Pdf

A fascinating look at how America's favorite sport has both reflected and shaped social, economic, and